Kate Muir goes trend-spotting at the festival — and the theme is love in wheelchairs

After a London Film Festival Bafta screening, Bill Murray was talking about
playing Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America’s paraplegic wartime president,
in Hyde Park on Hudson. “I think people saw how FDR overcame polio as
an adult and respected him for that, even though it was never discussed.”
Murray went on to compare Roosevelt’s charisma and sexual prowess (in the
film he has three mistresses and one wife) to that of Bill Clinton, and did
a wicked imitation of Clinton speaking at a party in such low and compelling
tones that he seduces the entire room. The Bafta audience was in